(funky music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Rhett. – And I’m Link. At the round table of dim lighting this week, we have Dave DeAndrea, the voice of Electronic Battleship, the board game. – Yes, and the reason that Dave and the voice of– – You have sunk your battleship. – Electronic Battleship is significant to us is because on an episode of Good Mythical Morning, back in August of last year, we played Electronic Battleship, and we were so impressed, and I would say, moved by the voice that was leading us through the game. – It added a whole other dimension to a game that otherwise I wasn’t motivated to play anymore. – Right, and we were so moved by this voice that we started talking about how we had to get in contact with this guy, figuring that if we said it on the show, somebody could get in touch with him. – Yeah, we just started talking directly to Dave, even though we didn’t know his name was Dave. And we didn’t know that he didn’t live in Ohio, even though, for some reason, we presumed that. – We thought that he did. He sounded like it. – And then yes, it took many months. – It took months, because– – Many months later. – There was no initial response. – Thanks to the Mythical Beasts talking to him over Twitter with a tweet that he sent our way. It’s worked out, and this is it. This is the culmination. – Yeah, that’s what this Ear Biscuit is going to be, (Link laughs) a conversation with him. – It’s the culmination of all of that. You never know what happens if you start playing Battleship. – Right. – Well, this is what happens. – Yeah, yeah, you end up talking to the voice of it. So that’s coming up in a second. But before that, we’re coming off of a trip, a little trip we took to Amsterdam. – Yeah, so let’s share some highlights. – Well, I would say, just first of all, I learned something, because I was actually on a tour of a castle, a castle that you also went to, but you didn’t take the tour. – Well, we went at different times. By the last day of our trip, which we brought our families with us, we each went off on a little wife excursion, or an excursion with our wives (laughs). – That’s what you call it? – No, that’s something else, but Christy and I went on an excursion to castles. – But we went to castles. – And we went to the same castle at different times on the same day. – But while I was on the tour, the guy said, “Does anyone know the,” he asked all the Americans. He says, “Do any of you know the difference “between Holland and the Netherlands?” And I was like, “Uh, no.” (both laugh) I waited for another American to say something. – So you didn’t audibly say, “No.” – No, I thought, “No.” – You just stayed quiet. – But it turns out that the difference is, well, you know the difference. You were just there. – The difference is that Holland is the name of two provinces. There’s like a Northern Holland and like a Southern Holland or something. I can’t remember what they are, but they’re not all of the Netherlands, which is the whole shebang of many provinces, including the two Holland ones. – Yeah, so Holland is a region of the Netherlands, and it’s like the northwest area, where Amsterdam is. – And Amsterdam’s a city, and canals are the water things that are cut all throughout a third of the Netherlands and all throughout Amsterdam. – I thought they call them caynals (laughs). – No, they’re canals, Rhett. – Really, well, that’s something else. I should have paid attention on the tour. I was calling them caynals the whole time. (both laugh) – And you know what, you can take a taxi on a caynal. We took a bus taxi to VidCon Europe to do our thing, which was make a smoothie of Amsterdam foods and then almost vomit on stage. – It was the best Amsterdam smoothie I’ve ever had. (Link laughs) – It was actually pretty nasty. – But the, so– – We met a lot of Mythical Beasts. – Yeah, shout-out, a special Ear Biscuits shout-out to all the Mythical Beasts. Many of you showed up for the meet and greet and for the Q and A. There were lots of hugs. – Yeah, we had people line up, asking us questions, which we answered. And then I saw that Shep was in the back of the line. – That’s my son. – So for the whole, like, 50 minutes of the hour, the Q and A, he was waiting in the back of the line patiently, to get up to the microphone, to ask us a question. You don’t let the boy ask you questions normally? – No, I tell him, “No speaking to Daddy.” (both laugh) – No, you don’t. But then, by the end of the night– – “All questions go through your mother.” – By the end– – “All answers come from Daddy.” – He had given up hope, he wasn’t in line anymore. – He got bored. – Do you know what question he was gonna ask? – Yeah, he told me. He was like, “Dad, I was going to ask why are you my dad?” And I was like, “Well, you should have done that. “That would’ve been awesome.” – It would have been very funny. – But then I talked to Jessie. – It might’ve been awkward, depending on your answer. – And she said, “He got bored.” He said he got bored. – [Link] Yeah, I got bored. – He stood there (laughs). No, you didn’t. He stood there for an hour. It was an hour-long Q and A, and he’s an eight-year-old, but anyway– – And it’s just his dad talking on a stage. – Great meeting all of you guys that came out. But we had an incredible time in Amsterdam. – Was the highlight the castle? ‘Cause for me the highlight was the windmill, the working, freakin’ windmills. – The highlight for me was the same day, but it was right after the windmill, and it was the cheese, the cheese place. – You realize that wasn’t a cheese factory. It was just a cheese shop, and they made it look like a factory downstairs so that they could give you like– – I don’t care. – It was just a ploy to sell cheese. They don’t actually make the cheese there. – I got to taste 27 different types of cheeses. – It was pretty good. I found myself liking cheese there a lot more than I ever have anywhere else. – Oh, it was so good. I enjoyed that whole day, though. The windmills were great. – The bus tour. – We went to the chocolate place, where we got to make the hot chocolate. But you see, here’s the difference– – That was just a gift shop, too, Rhett. – But here’s the difference between– – They don’t actually make, it’s not a chocolate factory. – We had 11 people in our posse. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Our posse consisted of us, our wives, our kids, and some babysitters. – Yeah, I know what you’re gonna say. It’s fine, you can say it. – We go into this chocolate shop. They called it the chocolate lab, which got me really excited. – Which means gift shop. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but hold on. But in the middle of the thing, they had Dutch chocolate, and you were supposed to take a spoonful of the Dutch chocolate powder, spoonful of the sugar and mix it with some milk. And they would give you hot milk. And I requested hot soy milk, because I don’t drink, you know, I’m lactose intolerant somewhat. – Okay. – All 11 of us are in there, and 10 of us decide to get this. It’s two euros apiece, and then you didn’t get it. You’re like, “Eh.” And then you tasted a little bit of Christy’s. (Link laughs) – She didn’t let me taste it actually. – We’re on vacation, man. I just don’t understand. You had the opportunity to taste, to experience this thing, and you’re like, “Ah, I’ll pass.” – I had the opportunity to make myself a cup of hot chocolate and then taste it. – And it was the best hot chocolate. – Been there done that. – No, you haven’t. You’ve had Swiss Miss. (Link laughs) That’s different. – It was just chocolate. – No, it was incredible. It was on another level. It was better. – Because you made up your mind for it to be that, and I’m not gonna take that away from you. – No, and it was better. It was the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had. It was special. – And I’m not gonna take that away from you. – I’m just saying whether or not it was better in my mind, because I was on vacation, I just don’t know what, I just don’t understand the, “I’m not gonna try that.” – I wasn’t thirsty. (Rhett snorts) (both laugh) – I think that’s your problem. You think hot chocolate is for when you’re thirsty. – No, man. – Hot chocolate is not because of thirst, man. It’s just for, it’s for feeling good. – Hot chocolate is very, it’s rich, and it weighs me down. – The cup was this big. It was like a swish cup from childhood, man. – I didn’t want to pay $2 for something that I had to make. – But listen, but I will say, I didn’t say anything to you– – I mean, if I’m gonna pay two euros for it– – I didn’t say anything at the time. We’re on vacation. I didn’t want to get– – But you’re silently judging me. – I silently judged you. And then we went to the cheese place. And I was like, “If he’s gonna walk through here “without eating any of this cheese, “I’m gonna say something to him.” But then I look over there, and you’re eating all the cheese, and I was like, (Link laughs) “Well, look at that, he’s eating the cheese.” – It’s like watching a rat in a maze. It’s like which way is he gonna go? – And again, I don’t think I’ve talked about this, because we’ve talked a lot about how multiple times on Good Mythical Morning, Good Mythical MORE and maybe even Ear Biscuits, about this dynamic between someone who wants to try a lot of new things and someone who doesn’t want to try a lot of new things. And how you shouldn’t get annoyed at someone that doesn’t want to try new things, because how does it affect you? And I’ve always thought that’s a compelling reason, and I get it. But I’ve actually come up with a theory of why it is annoying, and it’s justified. – To defend yourself, okay. – And it is because, you know when you meet somebody, and you find out that you’ve got something in common with them? You’ve got a common experience. You’ve got a common worldview. You agree about something. Maybe it’s political, whatever it might be, and when you find out that you agree about something, you feel this bond with them. – Sure. – I think that one of the reasons that you want to experience something with someone, and you want them to try it, and you want them to have an opinion, and you kind of want them to have the same opinion, like, if you taste this pizza, and you’re like, “This pizza place has the best pizza in the world.” And you take somebody to eat that pizza. And then they eat it, and they’re like, “Ah, it’s okay.” Is it the fact that they made you look stupid, and that’s why you don’t like that? Well, that’s probably a little bit of it. But also, if they say that, “Yo, this is the greatest pizza “in the world,” the shared experience, there’s some sort of adaptive advantage that’s built into our DNA that there’s a sense of, like, there’s like an endorphin rush when you agree with somebody on something, and you can experience something and have the same perspective on it. And I think that that’s what I’m searching for. So when I– – You had nine other people to have that with, with your hot chocolate. – [Rhett] No, but it– – I’m sorry. – But it would’ve been, it would’ve been that much better if everybody was enjoying it all at the same time. – It was so thick. – That’s what made it so good. But what I’m saying is– – I just didn’t have an appetite for it. – But when we went into the cheese shop, and you enjoyed the cheese, I got an endorphin rush (Link laughs) from you eating cheese. You see how this works? – Uh, I just enjoyed the cheese. It wasn’t like (mumbles) the cheese is so great! – If you love something a whole lot– – I did. Yeah, I get that. I understand that dynamic. – And come in, and I’m like, “No, I’m not interested.” – But I also didn’t do that. – No, you didn’t do that. – But I would understand if somebody like Debbie Downs the thing that you’re loving. Like, “This is the best pizza I’ve ever had.” And you’re like, “Well, I’ve had better pizza.” Well, I don’t want to hear that. It’s like, that’s not– – Yeah, I’m just saying, I’m not defending myself. – My stomach, I wouldn’t have felt good. – It finally hit me why it’s important to me. It finally clicked in my mind oh, I know why I have a problem when somebody doesn’t want to try something or enjoy something. – And Rhett, I can’t always be that for you. – Well, but whenever you can, I’d appreciate it. – I understand (laughs), I do understand that. I am keenly aware of what you want from me. – I did like the windmill, I gotta say. – I cannot be the center of your happiness. – The windmill was a great experience. I know you enjoyed that, too. – I know I’ve been that for years, but I’m gonna have to step out of the throne. – And the caynals were great! – The caynals were great. – We took a boat ride, just the two of us and one captain. – But for me, I felt like we had it with the windmills. I mean, we’re walking around. There’s a millstone that is twice the diameter of this round table. And then the guy, the Dutch man in his clogs is explaining how he literally takes linseed, puts it on the millstone, grinds it into linseed oil, which is then used to make– – [Rhett] Paint. – Paint. – Paint, but hold on– – And then he says that the millstone, when they originally put it in, as a replacement by the way, it was twice as big. – Do you remember what year it was put in? – No, what year? – Just guess, I want to, I’m just guessing. – Uh, it’s 2017 now. 1960. – It was 1865. – That millstone? – That millstone, first of all, the whole freakin’ thing– – Well, it was twice as big originally. – But the whole thing was built– – I didn’t think it took that long for it to wear down. – In the 1600s. The thing we were in was built in the 1600s. And then 200 years into the life of this mill, they replaced the millstone. – They replaced the millstone. – And it’s always been, you know– – Well, they don’t use it as much. – I know. – I was assuming they used it more. – But it’s been like 170 years or whatever the math is on that. – But looking at it, and I was like, “Well, how did you get it there? And he was like, “Pulleys.” Like I was asking a stupid question. How on Earth did you get this millstone up here? I guess I insulted him. I mean, you’re wearing wooden shoes. How’d you get it up here? “Pulleys.” – And you know while we were inside the windmill– – There was nothing, there was nothing, by the way, to prevent you from sticking a head or a hand or a foot or a whole body under a millstone. – I love it over there. – You can get smushed and die. – In America, there’s got to be signs on everything. You got to tell people to watch their step. – Cordons! – That this step’s a little bit weird. You got to put ropes around things. – Cordoned off! – In Europe, if a kid falls crooked one way and gets their head under a millstone, that’s it. – That’s his problem. – That’s the kid’s problem. – Pop goes the skull! You know what? – Why do we got to protect everybody from everything over here? – I didn’t even see any– – Let people live their freakin’ lives. – Bloodstains anywhere. – If a kid wants to jump under a millstone, let him do it, learn his lesson. – Did you see any bloodstains? – No, I didn’t. – [Link] Me, neither. – I think it just mixes right in with the paint. – Right when I walked in, I was like, the whole windmill was turning, the millstone was turning. I was like, “Man, if I tripped and fell, “I’d pop my skull on to this thing.” – And it would be your fault. That’s the way life works. People get weeded out of the gene pool. – There’s a wooden staircase that’s like super narrow and, like, rickety, and I’m like, “Well, I can’t go up there.” And then I’m looking for the sign, I’m like, “There’s no sign. “There’s no cordon. “I can go up there.” – Cordon (laughs). – And then, you know how you cordon something off? – Yeah, yeah, I just usually don’t use it in that way. – James Corden. – Yeah, that’s what– – He’s got a show. – He’s got a barrier around him at all times. – And then after the guy runs us through the linseed thing, he’s like, “Go around and look at the mill.” That’s not in any way what he sounded like (laughs). – A little Irish. (Link laughs) “Go look at the mill, sonny!” – “Go up the stairs.” So I went up the stairs. I went up the stairs. – Yeah, you did. And my kids went up there. – And you know what? There was one place that there was cordon, and it had a skull on it, and it kept you from walking under where the (laughs) actual windmill blades came down, ’cause they protected you from that, ’cause everyone would see it. – Well, they’re not idiots, you know. – That’d be bad for PR. – Right, right. But while you were up there, I was downstairs listening to Edgar, our tour guide. There was a piano, and he was singing. ♫ Isn’t she lovely (Rhett laughs) – Better than that. Stevie Wonder. – Yeah, he was singing that in the– – I heard him. It was echoing through the mill, and it’s a memory I’ll never forget. – That was a good moment. That was one of my highlights when he started singing Stevie Wonder in a Dutch windmill. – And you know what, I enjoyed it too, at the same time, and that gave you– – And we bonded a little bit. – It gave you a thrill. – Yeah. – A windmill thrill. – We’ll have to go back sometime. – There’s no thrill greater than a windmill thrill. – Just the two of us, no wife excursions or anything (laughs). – Oh no. – Well, we should probably bring them, too. – I’m always up for a wife excursion. – Yeah. – You know what else I’m up for? T-shirts. – Yes, we are very happy to announce a number of new, exclusive T-shirts, in limited run. – Here’s one. – T-shirts. What do you got over there, Link? – Just yourself be if weird is you. That’s something we said on Good Mythical Morning, but only for a limited time, can you put it on your body in this shirt form. – This is Boiled for Safety. You know, we’ve got Boiled for Safety mug, ’cause boiled for safety is something that we say on Good Mythical Morning, and now we’ve got a Boiled for Safety T-shirt. – Again, just for a limited time. – Now one cool thing about all these new– – Here’s a Wax Paper Dogz shirt. – [Rhett] That’s the band that we were in in high school. – It’s like got a cool, faded retro– – That’s the thing that’s in style now, apparently. We’ve been told that that kind of shirt’s in style. That’s why we’re offering it to you, for an exclusive period of time at rhettandlink.com/store. All of these T-shirts– – [Link] Look at that. – Now have our Made by Mythical insignia. Is that really, is it an insignia, or is it just a logo? Let’s call it an insignia. – It’s an insignia, man. It’s got a cordon around it. – Made by Mythical, you know it’s made by Mythical. You know it’s soft. You know it’s good. – It is soft. – You can wear it in the caynals. You can wear it– – 50-50 – Wherever T-shirts are worn. – Ring-spun cotton. Get ’em while they’re here to get, because they won’t be here for long, ’cause they’ll be gone when they’re gone. – Rhettandlink.com/store. – Now let’s get on with this biscuit with Dave DeAndrea. Oh man, that voice was great. The conversation was great. It had some big laughs. – Oh yeah. – And some windmill thrills. No windmills involved, though. – Didn’t even need them. – Nope. (funky music) – My son ate guacamole off of you. – He’s a hungry boy. He’s a growing boy. He’s got to eat that guacamole. – Off your feet (laughs). – Yeah. – I couldn’t see who was eating off of where. – You thought the feet cheese tasted pretty good. (all laugh) – Yeah, I’m bringin’ him up right. – Was there cheese on the feet? – Oh yeah. – There was cheese everywhere, man. – Hmm, here, love up on the microphone. This is how we do it. – All right. – Let’s tell a voiceover guy how to use a microphone. – ‘Cause I couldn’t even hear you. – Okay. – All right, I can hear you. – Is that better? – That’s good. – This is the wonderful thing about the internet, is that we can have a conversation on Good Mythical Morning about how we got to get in touch with this Battleship voice guy, and then months later, I mean, months, right, ’cause that was, like, August of last year. – It was August, yeah. – It starts to happen. – We’re all here. We’re all hanging out. (Dave laughs) We’re having our night on the town that we talked about. – Welcome, Dave, this is it, man. – Thank you, I’m so honored, truly. – Well, we’re honored, too, because, you see, I mean, I think, I haven’t watched it back. You’ve watched it back, just to kind of refresh, since it’s been like six months. – Refresh yourself. – Refresh yourself. – You got to refresh yourself before you refresh yourself. Did you refresh yourself? – I did not refresh myself. – I refreshed myself for both of us. – But we had– – You guys should do voiceovers. – Really? – Hey! – Voiceover what? – Well, this, what kind of character would this be? – Dog food commercials. – I’m a refreshing dog. – I’m a dog. I need to refresh myself with some dog food. – If they bring back, like, the Popeye cartoons, those can be like some side guys, you know, the old crusty– – Yeah, Popeye’s my buddy. – I’m a sailor. – This spinach is really refreshing. – I don’t get that spinach guy. I don’t understand. He’s got a lot of muscle in his forearm. It’s weird. – It is weird, yeah. – Is it a tumor? Does he have tumors in his forearm? – Infection from the tattoo, I think, is what happened. – He skips bicep day. – But we had, you tell me, ’cause you just refreshed yourself and watched it back. – Let me just say this, ironically, I’m having a voice issue today. I don’t know if it’s like intimidation that you were gonna be here– – [Dave] No. – Or the cold that I’m coming down with, but my voice is crackly. I’ve got some– – You all right? – Some tea, I’ve got water to back up the tea. – Got the crackly voice. – But I might just be a little intimidated. – Did you say you’re getting a cold? – Yeah. – Then I’m just gonna slide over here. – Yeah, that’s like the worst case scenario for a VO guy. – Yeah, you try not to get– – Well, throat cancer. (Dave laughs) I think that’s worse. – That would be worse case scenario, yeah. – How do you fight off colds? – Like emphysema. – You try to stay healthy. My kids are homeschooled, so they’re not bringing anything home with them, most of the time (laughs). – Oh right, they just keep it right there at home. – That’s right. – You keep ’em in there. – Yeah, you try to stay healthy and– – Stay hydrated, that’s Link’s philosophy. – You look healthy. Look at how healthy he looks over there. – [Rhett] You’re a healthy guy. I mean, this is dim lighting. – What’s that mean? – Everybody looks pretty good in this lighting, but I mean– – I was thankful for the dim lighting. – It’s your pallor. You’ve got a good pallor for a voiceover guy. – But you don’t have to look good as a VO guy. – You see the sun. – That’s the whole thing. – You look good for a VO guy. – I’m in my little padded room all day. – He’s got a great face for radio (laughs). You know that joke that everybody’s dad makes. – But what I’ve been trying to say is we’ve had– – I make that joke all the time, actually. – Well, you’re somebody’s dad. – I am. – It’s a great joke for you to make. – [Dave] Yeah. – But we can’t make it. – [Dave] No. – I just kind of did, though. – We’ll let you have it. We’ve had faith in, this is what I’ve been trying to say. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – We had faith in the internet that the internet would bring us together. I mean, we didn’t, like, okay, we had the Battleship. And we were playing it. – And I would just say that we assumed– – We didn’t read. When we started talking about the Battleship guy, we were just like all right, we want to meet you. We started talking to you. – Right. – Through Good Mythical MORE, but we didn’t look on the box or Google anything. I think Eddie may have Googled stuff. But I’m like I don’t care about that. – Nothing came up. – Nothing came up with your name or anything. It was like but we had faith. It may take weeks. It may take months. It may take years. It may take a lifetime, but we will meet. And this is it. Our faith in the internet holds strong because of this moment. This is a tent peg. This is going in the ground. So when I start slipping, and my faith in the internet is just wavering, and I’m sliding, I’m gonna grab this tent peg, and I’m gonna say, “You know what? “I remember when I put this one in the ground. “This is when we knew we were gonna meet Dave, “and then we did.” – But you’re also assuming that Dave is the guy that does the game. I mean, he said he’s the guy that does the game. – Actually, lots of guys in your comments said they were the guy that did the game, but they’re not the guy that did the game (laughs). – That’s true. – But there’s only one way to prove that you’re the guy that did the game. You’re the guy that’s here, and we’ve got the game. – [Dave] Right. – [Battleship] The battle has begun. – The battle, oh, sorry. – [Battleship] Number of players. – How many things are you saying? – Shut up. – [Battleship] Press two for two player game. – See, they had me do just a line at a time. – That does sound like him, though. I mean, I already know it’s him, man. The tone is the same. – So the battle has just begun. – The battle has begun. – That’s him (laughs). Look at that, he’s in the game. – And then what else did you say? – I don’t know. I did this like five years ago. – Five years ago? – It was. This was so funny, because I did it, and I didn’t even know exactly what I was doing the voiceover for. I thought maybe it was like a little handheld thing or an app. I didn’t know. – Well, when you say, “You’ve sunk my battleship,” that could only be one thing. – Well, I knew it was Battleship. I think this was right around the time the film came out. And then a couple of years later– – Rihanna was in that. – I don’t even know if I saw it. – Did you meet Rihanna? – No, I didn’t (laughs). – I didn’t see it. – Well, gosh, so this interview’s over. (all laugh) That was really what this all was leading to. We thought you had Rihanna’s number. – Well, we were hoping you’d bring her. – No, sorry. – We left this space and everything. He didn’t bring Rihanna, abort. – What a disappointment. – You just sunk our battleship. – You sunk our battleship. You sunk our battleship of hope. – I’m sorry, I’m sorry to disappoint. – Can you say, “Rihanna sunk your battleship?” – In the voice? – [Rhett And Link] Yeah. – Rihanna sunk your battleship. – Okay, then that just made up for it. – We can continue. You’re definitely the guy. We don’t even have to play the game. – How long ago? – It was about five years ago. And then a couple of years ago, a friend of mine said, “Hey, are you the voice? “We just bought this Battleship game. “Are you the voice on there?” I’m like, “No, I didn’t do any Battleship game.” Totally forgot about it. And he was, “No, I’m pretty sure it’s you.” I said, “Well, play me some of the audio.” And so he did. “Oh yeah, I totally did that. “That’s me.” (Rhett and Link laugh) – You had forgotten! – I did forget. And then a month ago, or whenever it was, somebody sent a message to my wife, and we’re home binge watching Little House on the Prairie, or whatever we were doing. – Who isn’t? – Was that a joke? – No, we’re on this binge right now of Little House on the Prairie. – Hey, that’s cool. – Hey, there’s a lot. There’s a lot of seasons. – [Dave] There’s like nine seasons. We’re on five, I think. – You know what, we’ve homeschooled our kids as well. We only let them watch Little House on the Prairie. We’re cool. We understand. – It’s a great show. – My kids are watching Big House on the Prairie now. You all don’t know about that. – So my wife yells out, “Rhett and Link want to meet you!” We watch your show. We got the mug and the whole shmear, you know. – Oh really, you have the mug? – Yeah, I think my son got it for Christmas, a year or two ago. But I wasn’t really familiar with the other channels, like, the 20 other channels that you guys have, just the main one. So she had a link to the playing Battleship one, and we’re watching it and, “Oh, they like the voice.” And the more it went on, you guys were like kind of freaking out. “We want to meet you.” And we’re just dying. (Rhett and Link laugh) It’s like, are you kidding me, right now? And we’re posting and sharing it online. – I will say. Sorry to interrupt, but we assumed that you were from Ohio. I mean, that was one of the things that we said. You said, “I assume he’s walking around “in America somewhere, somewhere in the Midwest.” And somehow we landed on Ohio. – Probably Ohio, yeah. – So I mean, I don’t know if we should apologize for that, because you’re not from Ohio. – No, I don’t know that I’ve ever been to Ohio. I’m sure it’s a lovely place. – [Rhett] Totally missed. – Well, you’re nailing that Ohio accent. (Dave laughs) – What we meant by that is that you have a voice that doesn’t have any discernible accent. You have like the American voice. – Neutral accent. – It speaks to everyone. – I hope so. Advertisers are you hearing that (laughs). – Okay, ow did you find this specific link? – You’re watching it. – So this friend messaged it and sent a link to my wife, Facebook message or whatever it was. So we’re watching it, and so after that we share it. Hey, Rhett and Link like, you know, enjoy it, and then we didn’t realize until a little while later, we looked at when it was posted. It’s like, “Oh, this was from August of last year.” This is so last year. They’re done, nothing’s gonna happen. – We’ve moved on. Rihanna never, yeah. (Link laughs) – But just in case, I’ll send out a tweet. I did a little video. I’ll send out a tweet, and I’ll message them on Facebook, and I’ll email their (laughs) producers, or whatever I need to do. And then the Mythical Beasts on Twitter kind of took over. “Oh, we found them. “And Rhett and Link, you have to have them on.” – They saw your tweet. – Yeah, ’cause it went to you, and apparently, they see everything that goes to you. – [Link] Right. – And so they got excited about it. And then we were actually down here at Disneyland, and I kind of said, “Hey, we’re in the area. “If you want to connect.” Then I think finally Rhett sent a tweet that said something along the lines of glad somebody finally showed this to you. And I was like, “That’s awesome. “He tweeted.” But that’s as far as it’s gonna go. – That was it. – That’s the end of the story. – Let me tell you what I was thinking at the time. We’re gonna meet Dave, but I don’t want to make promises, public promises. – On social media. – On social media. – [Dave] Smart. – But then we immediately began. We’re like okay, we got to get in touch with Dave, because what we talked about on the show was bringing you in to have a night on the town. – [Dave] Right. – Night on the town turned into an Ear Biscuit. But we wanted you to, I don’t know. The different ideas we talked about were– – Are you gonna take us out after this, for a night on the town? – Yes, absolutely. (Link laughs) Wherever you guys want to go. – Because what we talked about is we would go out to eat, and then we would face away from each other. – You’re refreshed. I don’t remember this. – Because I got refreshed. Dave would VO what we were eating, so we wouldn’t have to look at each other. That’s how we would enjoy the meal. That was one of the ideas that we had. – I would tell you what he’s eating and what you’re eating. – Okay, well, let’s do that. We should follow through so that the internet will continue to have faith in us. It’s a two-way street. – And the Rhett said, “I want him to come and talk “to my children, so maybe they’d respect me.” Talk to them and say things. – Maybe. – And then you said something like, “I want you to come “with me to parties and big me up,” I think was the phrase that you used. (Link laughs) – Big me up. – What does that even mean? – Well, so here’s what I’ve done. – Oh! – Since we’re not going on a night on the town together, well, maybe after this, but this is not a prototype. It’s not my own app. But I thought I could maybe develop something for you guys, for these instances. – Oh yes. – Oh this is real good. – So with your kids, if you run into a thing, you’re worn out. It’s a long day here at the studios. You don’t really want to respond. You’ve got these apps here. – [App] Kids, this is your dad. He will blow you up if you do not obey him. – That’s specifically what we asked for. – That’s exactly what you said. (Link laughs) – Because of the Battleship. (Rhett and Link laugh) – Yeah, there some others. – Yeah, the threatening– – [App] Delayed obedience is disobedience. – You know, delayed obedience is disobedience. – Ooh, that is really good, Dave. – I’ve been using that a lot lately, actually. – Obey right away, all the way and with a glad heart. – [Dave] That’s right. – That’s what we used to say at our house. Then we gave up. – [App] Bodily noises are not considered a joyful noise at church. (Link laughs) – Bodily noises. – If you want to be a little more encouraging, there’s– – [App] I love you. – And even if you’re just tired, just– – [App] How ’bout you get dad a sandwich. – That kind of thing. – Oh yeah! – He knew he likes sandwiches. – So now for the big-up, all right. – You gonna big me up? – Yes, so you’re at a party. You need a little help. – [App] Hello, friends of Link, you may not know that he scored two goals in one soccer game with his left foot, his off-foot, by the way. – Yeah, by the way. – [App] Hello, friends of Link, you may not know that Link can perform Around the World and Rocking the Baby on a yo-yo. – Oh, that’s true! – But now you do. (electronic music) – Oops, hold on. – Hey, what was that? – [App] Hello, friends of Link, who would like the honor of getting Link a sandwich? – I too want a sandwich. – Sandwiches for everybody! – No, just us. – Oh yeah, well, we’re everybody in this scenario. – But I get sandwiches from all types of friends. You only get sandwiches from your kids. – Now hold on, though, because I knew you guys are very busy, traveling the world. You got 20 channels going here. Maybe romance at home is a little tough sometimes. You don’t have the time to put in that you’d like. – Ooh, you’re reading my diary. (Dave laughs) – So sometimes maybe the touch of a button would be helpful. (electronic music) (romantic music) – [App] Ah yeah, looks like it’s time for a Good Mythical Evening, (Rhett and Link laugh) if you know what I mean. – What? – This makes me so happy. (romantic electronic music) – [App] Oh yeah, time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality, if you know what I mean. (Rhett and Link laugh) – Oh I don’t, but I don’t want to ask. – And of course– (romantic electronic music) – [App] Ah yeah, how ’bout getting your man a sandwich? (Rhett and Link laugh) – We still get sandwiches. – Oh yeah. We get sandwiches in every scenario. – Yes, we do. – Final one, ’cause I know you, if you find yourself in a situation where, because you got a lot of fans, some might get a little out of hand, in case you ever find yourself maybe kidnapped, in a difficult situation– – [Link] Yeah, it could happen. – This is your panic button here, okay. – [App] I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are over 12 million subscribers. Subscribers I have acquired over a very long career. Mythical beasts that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let me go now, that will be the end of it. I will not tweet to them. And they will not look for you. They will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will tweet them. They will look for you. They will find you. And they will kill you. (Rhett and Link laugh) Now go make me a sandwich. (Rhett and Link laugh) – Oh that’s crazy! – Oh man. – So, you’re set if I could just get this app to you. – You turned a kidnap situation into me getting a sandwich. – That’s right. – That is brilliant. – It’s love. It’s all love, man. – That is brilliant. – Now you recognized who that was. – Yeah, that was Liam Neeson. – Yeah, yeah. – If it were only Rihanna. – I played that for my wife, and she thought, “Isn’t that the guy from Princess Bride, “the Inigo Montoya guy?” (Rhett and Link laugh) I got to work on my Liam Neeson, apparently. – No, that’s good. That’s a good Liam Neeson. – Your spouse keeps you honest. – She does. – But that is a good Liam Neethon. – [Dave] Thanks. – Neethon (laughs). – It’s a perfect Liam Neethon. It’s not a good Liam Neeson. – I can’t even say Liam Neeson. Liam Neethon. – Thanks for doing that, man. – [Dave] Oh sure. – I mean, you know– – Sandwiches. – I thought we were gonna have a night out on the town, but this is better than anything we could have ever expected. – Oh I love it. – We can take Dave with us in our pockets. – Dave. – Yes? – I am just astounded. The faith that I had in the internet, I’m transferring all of it to you. – Oh no, don’t do that. – That was great. – How do you discover that you can do this kind of thing? – Mid-teens, I discovered that I was not a very good breakdancer. – But you were breakdancing? – I tried. I had like one good move for about a week, and then I lost it. So I got more into the deejaying thing, the scratching and mixing back in the ’80s. – Oh, you were scratching and mixing? – Scratching and mixing. – [Link] Nice. – That translated into radio in the mid-teens, which was not something I thought I would do. It’s just okay, let’s do this. – See, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a deejay, and I tried to scratch, but I just messed up a lot of my mom’s records, because I didn’t have the proper equipment. I had no clue what was going on. But you had two turntables, and you actually figured it out? – Yup, working in under-21 dance clubs at the time. Yeah, just learning things as I went. Back then, you had the VCR ready, in case anything came on that I wanted to see, ready to tape something and check it out and see how they do it. But yeah, so from that, into radio, and then really just, maybe 10 years ago, I was introduced to the broader world of voiceover. A friend came into the studio, and there were a few of these casting sites, kind of like acting, I guess, where somebody posts a job or something they want, and you can audition for it. And either they like it, or they don’t. And you can get hired for it, and just slowly started doing more of that and got out of radio and stopped doing– – So you were using the radio equipment after hours to get this side job? – I had permission. – I had permission to use the radio equipment from the radio station. And I was also producing a show at home for my church. They have like a daily show that they have on, and I’d kind of do the intro and outro that, so I was producing that. So I had some equipment at home, and they were cool with me using it at home. I had like a couple of soundboards propped up with, like, sneakers in the corner and from that, moved to the bedroom closet. And finally had a studio built out in the garage. – Because being a deejay, you kind of get, once you have these on, and you hear yourself, your voice– – You change the way you talk. – You start to change it a little. So it starts to morph over time, because you’re getting that immediate feedback, which I can see how that goes directly into voiceover. But then voiceover is a different level, because you’re not just using that deejay voice that you’ve got, but then you’re starting to tweak it for different things, and you ultimately are getting a lot of sandwiches as Liam Neeson. But I can see how that happens over years, I guess. – It does. I was really nervous to even venture out into it. It was a step of faith, ’cause there was some investment involved, a little bit, early on. And my wife and I were just like, “I don’t know. “What do you think? “Should I try it?” So we made the small investment and just thought I’m probably never going to get this money back, ’cause in small town radio, which I was in, to do a commercial, if you got paid to do it at all, it was minimal, 30 bucks, whatever it was. And so to try and see getting any money back for this, I got hired pretty quickly for a job, and when they told me how much they’d pay, I was trying to play it cool, like, “Oh yeah, “that’ll be fine.” But it was like this is gonna work. So I just went to– – Was that like a national ad? – No, that was… I’m trying to even remember what it was for. It wasn’t national, maybe like a regional or maybe somewhere else, but I thought okay, this could probably happen. And we kind of took it step-by-step. It just kind of grew from there to where I was finally able to maybe go like half-time at the radio station. Then finally it’s like okay, let’s just keep going, and it’s been great. I think I had a false sense of security that I was afraid to step out, because the radio job felt like a job. You know, it’s like a regular job. – Stable, clock in, clock out. – [Dave] Yeah, but then I realized– – Play some Manilow. – There’s really no such thing as a stable, secure job. You can do anything, and it could end any day, so might as well do this and not have to get up at 4 a.m. to do a morning show. – Ask Rihanna. – I’ve heard from multiple people that VO is like, it is the best job in Hollywood. – It’s great. – Well, you don’t even have to be in Hollywood if you don’t want to be. – Right, ’cause you’re up in the Northwest, in Oregon. – Right. (Dave coughs) Excuse me. – You work out of your house. – That’s a pro move right there. – He turns away from the mic to breathe and to cough. – Tay Zonday did that. – Tay Zonday started it. – Yeah, he started that. – But he perfected it. – I’ve done that before. I don’t have a cough switch here, so (laughs), cough button. – We got to get a cough button. – Is it as great as everybody, as Dave Coulier says it is? – Dave Coulier has the benefit of comparison, because I haven’t done anything else in Hollywood or in TV. This is as close as it gets here, I guess, for me. – You were not in any episode of Full House. – No, not to my knowledge. But it’s a wonderful community of people. There are some things that still kind of have to live down here for. A lot of animation and stuff, they kind of want you here, doing that. – Because they want you to come in with, like, a director or whatever, in person. – But there’s a lot of stuff where I can live there, and because of the miracle that is the internet, I can do stuff from my garage, and it goes all over the world. – Do you think we’ve got it? We got what it takes, because– – Well, you’ve got the equipment, for sure. – My voice is, I don’t think I’ve got it. You can be honest. – Whoa, hold on. It’s not about the depth of the voice, is it? – No, in fact, you’re talking about having that– – Mine has like a piercing thing. It’s like there’s something caught (honks). – No, but like a monster truck commercial, when there’s a lot of, like, the guitar playing, you want somebody who can pierce through it or like a car commercial. – Hey, the monster trucks are coming to town! – Yeah, see. – Get your ticket now for Dorton Arena. – Yeah, Dorton Arena. – The misconception is, ’cause you guys heard that. – That hurt, by the way. – You got to be careful. – [Link] I didn’t do that right. – That being a deejay previously is an advantage, but it’s actually kind of a disadvantage, because nowadays, they don’t really want you to sound, most of the auditions I receive, no announcer types, don’t want anybody who sounds like an announcer. They want somebody who sounds like they’re just– – Oh, from Ohio. – Yes (laughs), just a neutral, normal guy. A lot of times they’ll describe it just like you’re sitting next to a guy at a restaurant, just talking to your best friend. That’s what they want a lot. Of course, then they always choose the announcer anyway. (Dave laughs) – Oh. – But that’s what they, they want more of a natural thing. So if you were just being yourself, I think there’s another misconception that you always have to have some kind of big, you know, monster voice, when you don’t. I think they want normal sounding people in a variety of different things. – How often are you, ’cause just your normal talking voice, I kind of feel like I’m listening to, like, a commercial for like coffee or something. It’s warm. – Or caramel. Like the cream on top of the coffee. – Yeah. – Like the froth. – How would you talk about the cream that you put in your coffee? – I don’t drink coffee, so that’s a downside. (Dave laughs) – That’s your task as a performer. – I’d have to act. That’s the acting part. – [Rhett] Right, right, right. – What about froth? If you don’t like coffee, you can suck off some froth, can’t you? – Suck off some froth. (Rhett and Link laugh) – And you just slough that froth in your mouth, man. – I’m really trying to be careful (laughs) what I say. – I don’t know what that means. – Be careful of what you say. – What percentage of jobs are just basically your voice, maybe a little bit altered? Because the Battleship voice is like okay, that’s a character. – Right, right. A lot of times they just want this. I’ve put together like a demo where they can hear something like this, but then there’s something, (coughs), excuse me, more of a, I think I’ve got like a jewelry spot on there, where it is a lot more, it’s supposed to be sweet, and you know, this is the one that you want to present to your loved one. And you kind of just tone it down a little bit. But then there are some, like the Battleship guy, where it’s a little more gritty, and sometimes they want more of a– – Movie trailer-ish kind of thing. – Yeah, yeah. Or Sam Elliott sometimes. There’s a variety. And so I’ve come to, when I first started, I auditioned for everything. Didn’t land all of it, but you kind of narrow it down to what your wheelhouse is. I was trying out for a tween-sounding, some kind of kung fu animation or something. I was trying out for this tween, and they were like, “Can you sound a little younger?” And my voice had evolved a bit. And so I sent it to a friend who I respect, a guy, a coach and another voiceover guy. And he said, “Yeah, it definitely sounds like a kid “with a mortgage.” (Link laughs) I can’t do those voices anymore. – That’s a successful kid. – Yeah. – It’s Richie Rich, man. (Link laughs) You could be Richie Rich. – What’s the weirdest voiceover you’ve ever done? – You guys have heard of Axe Cop, yes? – Oh yeah. – Yeah, Ethan Nicolle, who’s the artist, and his brother, Malachai, who was five at the time when they came up with this, when that started taking off viral as a comic for him, he wanted to do motion comics and stuff like that and so– – Because, just to explain, what he did was he would interview his– – He got his kid brother to write it, basically. – He’d interview him, and he would, his five-year-old brother would tell the story. – It’s like written by a kid before written by a kid was a thing, and then Jimmy Fallon does like written by a kid scripts, like by kids, but this one of the first ones that was popular. – Yeah, and they would mostly just kind of play, actually. His younger brother just one day said, “Let’s go play Axe Cop.” And he was like, “Okay, let’s play.” And they just took off with it. He’s a phenomenal artist, and so he just started drawing it. And it took off, ’cause the kid’s mind was just limitless, you know, what they could do. – I remember this, Axe Cop, season one, episode one. Let me pull this up here. – And so I was doing the motion comics for it online. I think it was the Rug Burn channel on YouTube. – Yeah, this says four years ago. (dramatic music) – [Narrator] One day, at the scene of a fire. – That’s another guy. – [Narrator] The cop found the perfect fireman ax. – You’re essentially Axe Cop. – I’m Axe Cop. – That’s the day he became (dramatic music) Axe Cop. – That’s another great voice guy named Bob Souer. He’s good. – Episode one. – I need a partner now. – [Narrator] So Axe Cop had tryouts and hired a partner. – My name is Flute Cop. (slow flute music) – Did you just do the voice for Flute Cop, too? – No, that was a guy named Lee Gordon who did that. He was the original Flute Cop. – But you’re the Axe Cop. – So I said, “Yeah, I’ll do it, but I want to be Axe Cop.” (all laugh) And he let me round up some of the other voice guys in there. And then that took off for him really well. Nick Offerman got a hold of it. And they did some stuff on ADHD, I think it’s what it was, on Fox. – Yeah, on Fox. – A couple of seasons. – Oh so Nick did it for the Fox thing. – Yeah, and he did great. I was a little bitter at the time (laughs). I know that stuff kind of happens, and it’s like he’s Nick Offerman. I mean, if anybody would probably actually be Axe Cop, it’d probably be Nick Offerman. – Attach some celebrity to it. – I mean, you set the template. Nick Offerman sat around and listened to you as Axe Cop. – I don’t think he did (laughs). I think he had his own groove there, ’cause he sounds like Nick Offerman. But they did some great things with it. We were just watching it. In fact, Axe Cop related, I did bring you guys something. – Oh. – ‘Cause I heard that you were fans. – As if you haven’t already given us enough by A, being here, and B, all of those voice tracks on your phone. – No, being here is a gift for me, you guys. This is great. So I heard you guys had been, or are, Axe Cop fans. – Yes. – Yeah, it’s super cool. It’s so funny. I mean, how you can see the five-year-oldness come through in the concepts and, “I need a partner.” You know, it’s like, it’s just very– – But I had Ethan draw up a little something for you guys. – What? – Oh no, what? – We’re riding on the back of a T-Rex. – That’s Wexter, yeah. There’s the T-Rex. – Yeah, whose front arms are Gatling guns or whatever you call them. – I hope I’m holding that in the right place. I’m holding it in front of Battleship. – Meg, is that good? You getting a good shot of that? Isn’t that amazing? – [Meg] It’s good. – Yes, he was more than happy to do that. – She’s upset, ’cause she’s not in it. She’s trying to hide it. – Oh sorry (laughs). – You’re about to fall off the back there, Rhett. – Yeah, and I’m winking. – You’re not winking. I think you lost an eye. – You were doing that refreshed voice, and that’s what you got for it. – This is our night on the town with Axe Cop. – Yes, baby. – That’s it right there. – That is some good stuff, man. – There’s two. You can each have one if you want. – [Link] Oh, there’s two? – I mean, it’s the same one, yeah. – He drew it twice, exactly the same. – No, he printed it out. – You’ve got the original. – He did it digitally, and then he sent it to me. – That’s how it works, digitally. – We’ve got to talk our wives into putting this up in the bedroom. – Oh yeah. – And make me a sandwich. – Put it right above the headboard. I don’t know if that’s gonna work or not. – It’s cool, man. – I’ll put it in my desk. – Look at that. – Thanks for that, and thanks to Ethan. – Yeah, he’s a great guy. – Have you ever done any ads for like mashed potatoes. One of the first things we did was we talked to a woman who was the voice of mashed potatoes for what was that? – That was a channel, Allison Fishman? – Yeah. – Swedish meatballs, man, but I think she also– – And mashed potatoes. – She did mashed potatoes. It was a food channel on YouTube. – And we were just talking about it. – The way she talked about food made me so hungry. – So we met her in person in New York. – [Dave] Nice. – It wasn’t nearly as thrilling as this has been so far. – I’m buying your affection, so maybe that helps. She didn’t give you meatballs or anything? – No, have you done any Swedish meatballs? – [Dave] I have not done Swedish meatballs, but I am– – Mashed potatoes? – I am the voice for Simply Potatoes, a product right now, which you’ve probably heard on the Food Network perhaps or other places. – No, but I’ll– – It is a kind of a potato-ey voice. – Type in my site, davedeandrea.com. I think the video’s right on there, but they wanted me to channel a bit of a Donald Sutherland, just how he talks really, you know, kind of quietly, about orange juice or whatever he was talking, some Simply Something that he was doing. – How did you know, how did you– – Maybe I must’ve read something about potatoes. – Did you sense potatoes? – You looked at me and thought potatoes. – [Rhett] I’m serious. – Axe Cop and potatoes. – It’s warm, and it’s starchy (laughs). – Here we go. – Buttery! – I’m gonna put that on my business card, warm and starchy. – And frothy. – [Dave] And frothy (laughs). – You got a frothy voice. All right, let’s see. (bright music) – [Dave] Some call it a spud or a tater. At Simply Potatoes, we call it our calling to bring you fresh, never-frozen potatoes, grown close to us, where they’re simply peeled and prepped, for real potato goodness that goes from farm to fridge to that oh-so-delicious moment on your fork, simply made, simply satisfying, Simply Potatoes. – Man. – Yeah, but what are they? (Dave laughs) – Did you see the packaging there? I think they have a variety of products in your freezer section. – Is it potatoes? – It’s not fake. It is potatoes, yeah, simply potatoes. – What else is it, though? – It’s just simply potatoes. That’s the whole point. – But what else is in there? – I didn’t look at the ingredients, but I think it’s just simply potatoes. – The thing is, is I feel like you could talk, you could get any– – You looked at the script. – You could get me to eat poison, if you talked about it in that way. – Try it. – You could do a commercial for arsenic, and I’d be like, “Mm, warm and starchy arsenic.” – Give us a little arsenic. (all laugh) – It’s very sweet going down, but it’s got a bit of an aftertaste. Then you die. (all laugh) – Yeah, see, I don’t care. – But you got to hit the product to the website. – I’ve already eaten it before I died. – And how do I order it? – How do you order it? – [Link] Yeah, like arsenic.com. – Arsenic.com (laughs). – Arsenic.net. – Look up arsenic.com. – The last thing you’ll ever eat. (all laugh) – See, you got the writing side of this thing, too. – I write some spots, too. – The last thing you’ll ever eat. – The last thing you’ll ever eat, arsenic. – So arsenic, folks, you can call me. Look at my website. – Look at arsenic.com. See if that’s a thing. – What am I searching for? Arsenic? – Dot com. – [Link] Why am I searching for it? I’m just gonna go to it. I’m gonna type it up here and go to it. Arsenic and Old Lace. – [Rhett] What is that? – It’s an old movie. – Resources, curios, supplies and fine gifts. – [Rhett] Hold on, we can get a personal– – Whoa, we’re in an occult shop. We’ve got to get out of here. Back out, quickly, back away. – Incorrect. – My goodness. Let’s go back to Dave’s website. – Yeah, Dave’s website. – It’s a safe, family-friendly place. – [Rhett] You do a Morgan Freeman, I see. – I do get hired every once in a while to do a Morgan Freeman. – Oh, you know, we could’ve used you. – That’s interesting. – We could have used you recently. – Man. – We had an idea, okay, so– – [Dave] For future reference. – You may have seen, we did– – You may have seen The Tonight Show. – We were on The Tonight Show. – In fact, yeah, my daughter said, “In fact, I think they’re gonna be on The Tonight Show, “just before they’re with you.” But then it was a rerun last night or something, so I guess you guys weren’t on. – Yeah, it was almost a month ago now, right. – Yeah, it was weeks ago, many. – So we did Will it S’more with Jimmy. One of the ideas that we were talking about that we didn’t end up doing, and I think I know why we didn’t do it, because Morgan Freeman ended up being on the show the next night, but we had an idea to do one of the s’mores was just gonna be a regular s’more, but it was gonna be voiced over by Morgan Freeman as we ate it, and we were gonna call it S’morgan Freeman. – That’s a great idea. – That’s would’ve been pretty great, right? – Oh yeah. – They liked the idea, but then they ultimately said they couldn’t do it. And we even pitched it like, “Well, you don’t have “to get Morgan Freeman. “We’d just get a voiceover guy to do it.” We hadn’t talked yet. We didn’t know. We hadn’t been to the website. – If I had connected with you six months ago, like I was supposed to– – [Link] Right. – I’d been on The Tonight Show. – You’d been in our luggage. – But can we make that moment happen now? – [Dave] Sure. – I mean, we don’t have any s’mores, but you know what’s in a s’more? – [Dave] Yeah. – You can kind of see why we’re so obsessed with voiceover. – Because you always need it. – We just feel like it would enrich every moment of our lives. And you’ve done nothing but prove that. But yet we keep pushing. – No, it’s– – I mean, we’ve just eaten arsenic, man. And now we’re eating s’mores. – Oddly enough, the arsenic would be similar to the s’more voice but better ingredients. – So this is not an ad. This is like Happy Feet narration. This is just like a play-by-play. – He didn’t do Happy Feet. It was March of the Penguins. – Same movie. – [Dave] Penguins. – Penguins. He played one of the penguins. – Let’s eat our s’mores and let Morgan talk, man. – Okay, I’m wrong. – He’s there in his mind already. – [Link] I’m wrong, Dave. – [Dave] I’m sorry. What kind of s’more do you have? – I got a big one. – Well, look at that. (both laugh) – You can’t laugh, man. You can’t laugh! We got to just let this happen, man. Try to control yourself. – Okay, okay, okay. Well, he laughed – I think I laughed, ’cause you laughed. – Oh, that’s true. I’m not gonna eat mine, yet. – Crisp graham cracker (laughs), lightly-toasted marshmallow, and a big ol’ hunk of chocolate. (all laugh) – This would’ve been perfect. – Oh I know. They should have done it. – We don’t need The Tonight Show. This is the Ear Biscuits. – Smorganfreeman.com. (Rhett and Link laugh) The last thing you’ll ever eat. (all laugh) – What’s in that s’more? What’s Morgan putting in the s’more? – Just a touch of arsenic. (Link laughs) (Rhett sighs) – Dave. – Let me eat mine. You can say the exact same thing. I’m sure it will be thrilling. – It looks like Link’s got a little too close to the fire. But some people like it that way. Taking a (laughs), he looks a little distraught. Now he’s happy. (Rhett and Link laugh) But that was no marshmallow. That was penguin. (all laugh) – Oh man. – You can just go right into that. – That’s one that I have gotten more comfortable with. It was one where I was auditioning for, never getting it. In fact this buddy of mine, Paul Hernandez, and I, we’d go back and forth, trying to do that and audition for it, never get it, and then– – Never getting Morgan Freeman, a sound-a-like, specifically? – Right, correct. And then, I grew a little more confident. In fact, I was at a voiceover workshop one weekend. And the guy who was coaching it was away, Pat Fraley. So we were kind of just goofing around, reading scripts, but then some of the other voice guys started kind of throwing out their accents and things that they do, just kind of like a what-do-you-got kind of thing. And I was like panicking. I want to do this, but I’ve never really done it in front of anybody before. I thought I could just go do a New York thing, something, you know, just something stupid. And I thought, “Oh I’ll try it.” But while I’m reading, I’m hearing them go, “He’s doing Morgan Freeman. “That sounds just like Morgan Freeman.” So my confidence boosted up a little bit. And so then I worked with a, I actually worked with a dialogue coach for a while on that one, too, ’cause there’s some subtleties in there, ’cause he’s got a very unique voice, obviously. And so it’s just getting honed and a little better. It’s just a fun one to do, and it doesn’t hurt me at all. Some of the, you know, like Battleship, I do that for an hour, and I’m through for the day. – Well, for Morgan Freeman, from a legal standpoint, You’re saying that there’s people putting out auditions for I want it to be like Morgan Freeman, but if you nail Morgan Freeman’s voice, isn’t there some sort of legal ramifications to that? – I’m sure there is. Oftentimes, they’ll say, “We want it to sound kind of “like Morgan Freeman but not exactly like Morgan Freeman.” I did something for oh, Select Quote Senior, I think it was, and it kind of had a Morgan Freeman vibe to it. Sometimes they do, but it’s not really like a national broadcast thing. It may be for somebody’s website or tutorial or something like that. – But if it got big, you might be in trouble. – No, he wouldn’t be in trouble. – Not you. you wouldn’t be in trouble. – I might, I don’t know. I should probably look into that. – I think you’re in the clear. – But when they call I’d just say it’s all right. (all laugh) – Morgan gives his permission. – Yeah, I got him right here. – You know, you can talk to him. He’s right here. – You’re on FaceTime, idiot. What are you talking about? We can see you. – Can’t get in trouble. – That’s great. But then you’re talking about preserving your voice through the more painful, so you could do some damage with certain voices, like when I was trying to do that monster truck guy. – Actually, so on a recent GMM, oh, when I was doing Hell Burger. – Yeah, when it was the VR, not VR, but the– – The burger that was– – The digital vloggers taking the place of real vlogging. – A lot of people were like, “I could watch Hell Burger all day.” And then there was somebody who came in and said, “Actually, I’m studying voice,” or something like that, “Rhett’s voice is very unsustainable. “Therefore, it’s not a good voice. “He could never do that professionally,” or something like that. Somebody came in and said that. – What does that mean to you? – I was damaging my voice as I was doing it. – Unsustainable? – I think that there are, and this is not something that I have studied and certainly no expert at, but I know that there are techniques and things where you could do it to where you could, even for singers, some of the screamo singers, how they can just keep doing that night after night. There’s some technique and training that goes into being able to do that. I really don’t have that. If I know I’m gonna be screaming, like if it’s for a video game, and all I’m doing is screaming and dying, pretty much, I’ll schedule that for as late on, like, a Friday afternoon, for the session, as I can, to give myself the weekend to recover, so I’m back to normal by Monday and doing potatoes or whatever I’m doing. – [Link] Back to the taters. – So yeah, I’m sure, and I’m sure if you Google it, there are techniques and ways you can do a lot of screaming and yelling but preserve it and do it in a way that it will not wear out your voice. – You do it intuitively. – Well, I think if you’re gonna be, I think, because in the context of what people were saying, it was like, “Well, I would love to see a Hell Burger show,” or whatever it is. Well, he couldn’t do that, because it’s a voice that if you’re gonna do a character voice, you got to be able to do it over and over again. (Dave grunts) – Do you have Battleship at your house? – I do, after that friend called and said, “I think this is you on this game,” and I was like, “Right, yeah,” then we immediately went out and got it and had a kick out of playing it. – Do you like it better than just the regular, old? – We don’t even have the old Battleship anymore. So yeah, it’s fun. The kids get used to hearing me doing stuff, you know, after a while. “Oh great, Dad, Simply Potatoes, wonderful.” And they’ve heard it, ’cause I was in radio and stuff, so they’ve been used to hearing me. The coolest thing that ever happened was the night that we found out you guys, the fact that you guys were geeking out about my voice, my achievement unlocked as a dad, I suddenly became very cool as a dad, way more than doing some national commercial. They just thought, “Rhett and Link like Dad. “Dad must be cool.” – Well, dude, get as much mileage out of it as you can, because Battleship itself gets old pretty quick. – Even when you put Rihanna in it. – Yeah, even with Rihanna and your amazing voice, it’s like, all right, I kind of get it. You sunk my Destroyer and my, what’s that other carrier, aircraft carrier? – All the carriers. – I don’t know who the other guy is on there. There was a couple of other voice guys on there, too. – Losers. – No, I thought they were, the one guy almost kind of had, he had like a Muppet kind of thing going on. It was really awesome. I don’t know who they were. – That’s a compliment? – It was, no, it was cool. I really liked the, one of the, you know, freeze player when they do stuff. – I’m disappointed to hear that you don’t have like a Battleship guy voice reunion every year. – Well, we pictured you all in the same room, you know, just playing the game. – No, I was in my studio in my garage in Oregon. – With sailor suits, three of you. – Right. – In the Navy. – We can make that happen. ♫ In the Navy – If you’re one of the other voice guys on Battleship– – Ooh. – Yeah, next time on Ear Biscuits. – You’re workin’ that internet faith. I like that. – Well, dude, thanks for selling arsenic to us. – My pleasure. – If you had it on you, we would all be dead, or at least the two of us would be. We’re gonna enjoy some Simply Potatoes later, and my wife is gonna be hearing your voice tonight. (all laugh) – Oh whoa! That’s weird. – Ah yeah. (all laugh) My pleasure, thanks, guys. – Yeah, thank you. (funky music) – And there it is, our voiceover conversation with a voiceover artist. Well, I guess we didn’t do a voiceover. It was technically. A podcast is voiceover. – This whole thing has been a voiceover. – There it was. – Well, no, no, because I mean, technically a voiceover is when you voice over something. We’re just kind of voicing the thing that’s happening. – And we weren’t over anything. – Yeah, I mean, we’re over the thing that’s happening. – I’m not over it. I don’t think I’ll ever be over it. It was life-changing. – It was moving. It just reminded me how good of an idea it was to get him involved in our lives. – Yeah, and you know, it hit me, when we were talking about the voice of mashed potatoes, and now we’ve met two voices of mashed potatoes. – Allison Fishman. – Allison Fishman, I think now, it’s got to be our life mission to seek out all potato-related voiceover artists and make a personal connection with them. – Does that include anybody that does, like, a commercial for french fries for fast food? – Yeah. – Because that’s really wide. – No, no, no, no, no. – It’s got to be a commercial for potatoes. – Potatoes that in one form are mashed. Like, ’cause his had mashed in it. – Which was crazy. At first, I thought it was just simply potatoes, but it turns out that you can mash them. You can get the mashed version. – You can simply mash potatoes. – But what are they? – They’re just simply potatoes. – Exactly. (both laugh) – All right, I mean, why not just buy a potato? – [Rhett] What a slogan that is. – That’s kind of the question. – But what are they? Simply Potatoes. – Then why not just buy potatoes, I think, is my follow up question, because of the voiceover. That’s the power of voiceover. The voiceover talked us into just buying sacks of potatoes, instead of just buying bags of intact potatoes. – But do you want another real reason? I mean, the real reason is because it’s easier. – I told you the real reason. – What, that it’s easier than potatoes. Potatoes have to be peeled and boiled. These have been cooked, probably, already. I don’t really know. – So they’re not simply potatoes. – I didn’t really pay that much attention to the advertisement (laughs). – I was just thinking about his frothy voice. – Way to bring the froth back. – Oh yeah, and it was a good experience. Wouldn’t you say? – Yes. – Well, let us know, #EarBiscuits. – Yeah, you can do that in the comments on this video, if you’re watching on the This is Mythical YouTube channel, which is where you can enjoy the audio and video version, the voiceover and the video part that has been voiced over. – Mm hm, under, the video under and the voice over. – But if you just want to enjoy the voiceover part, that can be made available to you and has been made available to you everywhere podcasts are available to you. – It includes Spotify, iTunes. Leave a review on iTunes, SoundCloud it up. However you podcast, I trust you’re listening to it that way right now. – Yes. – Or you can switch at any point. 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